When life came crashing down and I wanted to run away from life and faith, those many years of intentionally seeking out the wisdom of those ahead of me in life kicked in. One woman in particular imprinted a warrior woman image...

Let’s finish this week with the same question with which we started: What is your default mode when life comes crashing down? What is your automatic response when confronted with a crisis too big to imagine, overwhelming grief, or sudden loss...

Mention Job and even those unfamiliar with the Bible, immediately know that you’re talking about someone who lost everything. One of Job’s friends, Bildad, the Shuhite, tried to comfort him by exhorting him to ask those who had come before him for wisdom..

When life comes crashing down, knowing I don’t belong “here” and that this earth is not my Home, fuels my journey with hope. About two years after the fatal car accident of our son Mark and his friend Kelly,  I tried to comfort Leslie, another bereaved mother, by telling her...

Sometimes we mindlessly obey rules with little thought as to why they are in place or how they protect us. How many times have we yelled because of too many red lights or slow speed limits, with no thought to how such rules are fences that not only protect us, but also protect others? We forget the blessings of traffic rules...

The family room looked like a scene out of a Hallmark movie. The fireplace glowed, Christmas lights twinkled, and five of our grandchildren quietly explored their Christmas gifts. Our son, Dan, suddenly exclaimed...

As we start a new year, we are excited to announce that we are continuing to offer Daily Treasure as a podcast.

Have you ever looked back on your life to see the evidence of God’s hand in preparing you for the future? This verse in Hebrews 11 is a definite neon light in the history of my life. God knew a long time ago that this verse would…

A young mother recently lost her child to illness. She spent many long days and nights in the hospital room by her daughter’s side before life gave way to death. Although life as she knew it had stopped in its course…

“Sometimes it’s so hard to talk to God and to trust him when I can’t see him or feel Him.” My daughter said this to me while we lay there cuddled in her bed one night. I always take time to lay with my children while…

Have you ever listened to the words of the song you are singing? Do you ever stop singing because you realize that you cannot truthfully sing something you do don’t mean? Or perhaps something you don’t feel at the moment…

Early one morning during a family vacation, I walked along the ocean as the others slept in. The waves crashed on the sand, the sandpipers ran back and forth with the ebb and flow of the tide. The breeze was cool as the pinnacle…

“If you don’t have good roots, you won’t have good fruit.” I heard my father in law say to my husband as the sat eating breakfast in my kitchen one morning. They were discussing the process of growing quality plants in the greenhouse…

As we wrap up this series, A Broken Hallelujah, it’s my joy to introduce to you our Guest Writer for this week, Wendy VanWingerden. Wendy’s life demonstrates what it means to live a life that is a broken hallelujah. In the summer of 2009…

I would not be completely honest if I did not share some of the anger and frustration I have felt along our journey losing our daughter, Promise, through late-term miscarriage. I used my journal to pour out those feelings and try to process them through the grid of my faith. From my journal…

In my journal I wrote: It has been ONE month since we said hello and goodbye to Promise - our baby girl who was born through a miscarriage at nearly twenty-two weeks..

My mom arrived just a few moments after the intense labor and miscarriage of our daughter. She had been on the phone with my husband Jason for the past hour or so, trying to help him know how to help me, as she made her way to the hospital…

After receiving the news that the baby growing inside me no longer had a heartbeat, and after confirming next steps with our doctor, Jason and I got a flight from my parents’ home in Delaware to our home in Florida that same night…

The news about our little girl came just as we were finishing up a wonderful summer vacation so we were not at our home in Florida. Though that made our circumstances more difficult on some levels, we felt…

Today was the day!  I was nearly 22 weeks pregnant with our second child and my husband, Jason, and I couldn’t wait to find out the gender of our baby. The ultrasound tech took a few quick pictures and then said..